modding-general

[acoustic ivy]

how do i fix this please help the fender flare was a separate dae and i combined it to the fender but idk how im gonna fix the orange texture

[shut pollen]

need to fix the uv map in a 3d modelling program

[shut pollen]

the material might have a suffix like .001 in the blender material menu. open the material menu and find the correct material, dont just manually remove the .001 as that will break the other meshes

[acoustic ivy]

the name is good

[shut pollen]

need more context, not sure exactly what is wrong as it appears to be several issues

[acoustic ivy]

i tried to add it on a slot and says simulation error

[shut pollen]

that is the mesh, not the material

[acoustic ivy]

oh i see

mb

[shut pollen]

no worries, should be a quick one to fix. just correct the material and export again

[acoustic ivy]

ur right damn

thank you master

[shut pollen]

happy modding

[wise notch]

Hi everyone, if I would like to start learning how to make car mods on my own, who would you recommend learning from?

[acoustic ivy]

youtube and alot of trial and error you will figure it out

[wise notch]

Like this?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjOUeYozMDwAHpXFsATOhKeGbc-SV273&si=h6zfYljNDsgCA7S7

[acoustic ivy]

ya

[quick axle]

ain’t no way an AN130 in beam

where’s the model from?

[devout cargo]

That guy's videos are really good! I suggest taking fillman86's tutorial and BeamNG Boy's tutorial too, because that's exactly what I did!

[wise notch]

Thank you very much for the help, it would really help me if they were able to help you and make you understand how to make quality mods 🙂

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[brittle warren]

In blender click a and go to object apply all transforms and re export

[proud sierra]

nah, jbeam was missing location

[left swift]

I have a mesh that basically forms a closed in room as part of the map. I set the environment to night time and I'm trying to use point lights to light it up but it looks really weird. The paint on the vehicles seems really flat and the shading seems wrong. What do I need to do to make it look better?

as opposed to how it looks if I set it to day but reduce the brightness of the sunsky and set it to include in lightmap:

This is the kind of look I'm aiming for (this is how it looks on sketchfab):

[trim scroll]

i cant open modland

[proud solstice]

good

[left swift]

Starting to add more lights makes it better at night but the shadows are weird

[brittle warren]

good modland is stolen mods

[autumn ravine]

hello guys, im new i want to learn modding vehicles because of my dream cars that are not in game or mods and believe that other players would like it, but im stupid and dont know how to do models, coding or something else, i want to ask if someone could help me with it and by time i could learn and do it by myself, if someone would like to help dm me please i would appreciate it

[brittle warren]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/tutorials/basic_car_tutorial/ start here

[keen shadow]

also proably start with just "aftermarket" parts for vanilla vehicles to learn jbeam a bit better

[autumn ravine]

that will help i believe, bad thing is i really dont understand these things so im here to ask for stuff

[keen shadow]

beamng docs are a good place to look

[autumn ravine]

yeah i should start with this and not full vehicle

i will study documents there is lot of as ive seen now

[left swift]

also the wydra just sinks into the water plane and floods the engine with water 😭

[brittle warren]

yea its comlicated to get started if you have no knoledge at all but it comes quick once you get the hang of it

[autumn ravine]

its good that i can learn quick when i see how to make it, so documents and maybe videos could really help

i hope it will make my goal possible, i want to recreate Flatout 1 vehicles its my games dream, i wanted to start with "Bullet", i will start with some parts and then go for full new vehicle, Thanks for help guys!

[keen shadow]

did you edit the viscosity?

[brittle warren]

heck yea good luck man

[autumn ravine]

thank you!

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[left swift]

Nope. It seems that outside of the model the thing floats fine. I realised I had a part of the mesh covering the water that was hidden in blender. The normal was flipped so didn't see it from the top. Vehicle was colliding with that and sinking but after deleting that part of the mesh it is fine now.

[brittle warren]

anyone know why everythoing dissapears when iopen the world editor cleaned my cache multiple times and happens with no mods

[vague shoal]

Can someone lead me in the right direction to fix these gauges being misplaced?

[urban chasm]

can someone help me figure this out please

[brittle warren]

you have to use node move on the wheel hubs

[urban chasm]

is this the correct way to use it

[brittle warren]

i believe so

[urban chasm]

i moved to put it on the suspension for the hub

it doesn't seem to work

[brittle warren]

wherever this is listed try putting it there and not on the wheel data

[urban chasm]

this is what i have now

[brittle warren]

and it doesnt work?

[urban chasm]

no

[brittle warren]

how did you move the suspension

[urban chasm]

i moved the nodes and moved the mesh seperatly

[novel wagon]

help, when i take this ledbar from the rockbasher and try to put it on my miramar nothing happens when i try to change the posistion of it

[brittle warren]

so you useed node move on the suspension jbeam?

[urban chasm]

no i changed the node xyz

[brittle warren]

try just using node move on the suspension in the frame jbeam

and see what that does

[urban chasm]

doesn't seem to do anything

[brittle warren]

reload the game cause node move should definitly do something

[urban chasm]

not doing anything

[urban chasm]

well for the jbeami believe i used blender to move it to it's new location and same for the mesh then i changed the nodes that were missing and changed or added them to the rear

so the back is almost identical to the front

[inner heart]

can you removed every node move and node offset for any bit of the rear suspension?

yes, basicly redo it

[urban chasm]

the only nodemove and offset was the nodemove in hte frame for suspension and in the hub for trackwidth

[inner heart]

show the node move and node offset and show where they from and what slot they effect?

[urban chasm]

right now i have offset for trackwidth i will show in a se

[brittle warren]

am i wrong to tell him to use node move on the suspension slot?

[inner heart]

i just want a full image of the situation that i know is taken at the same time

so theres no random ass side effect kicking our ass

[urban chasm]

is there a better way to show u this code

[inner heart]

whats wrong with showing

oh, just show the line of the slot for suspension

if u want to say the frame have too many slots

[urban chasm]

this is frame

this is rear suspension

[inner heart]

and an ingame screenshot of the jbeam?

[inner heart]

good

move the wheel to its intended location in sbr_hub_R_5 in the nodeOffset for wheel_R_5 slot

[brittle warren]

i already had him do that and he said it didnt work

[inner heart]

change the description of the wheel_R_5 to something stupid

do you see it ingame

[urban chasm]

yes

[summer fossil]

Hey, making some map changed and doing road architect stuff... Any idea what may have happened here? Restore terrain does not work. Thanks!

[inner heart]

then idk whats going on, send files do u mind?

[urban chasm]

sure in dms
?

[inner heart]

however u want

[urban chasm]

i will just dm u it

[brittle warren]

pretty sure node move needs to go here like i said

[urban chasm]

i did but it didn't seem to move anything

right now @inner heart has a version of the mod to figure it out

[inner heart]

found it

[brittle warren]

yea i know but since you moved the regular suspension jbeam in blender the hubs wouldnt have been moved so they would need nodemoved and okay lmk if he fixes it and how

[inner heart]

var trackoffset_R doesnt exist
u named it trackoffset_r
that breaks the nodeOffset

[urban chasm]

oh...

because R and r

[inner heart]

yes

[urban chasm]

thank you

[brittle warren]

stupid case sinsiteve stuff lol

[urban chasm]

thanks @inner heart

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[inner heart]

had a chance to caught it, how sad, had to get the files from u before i realize it

only find out smth is sus when i shoved in the pickup hub and it still doesnt work

[urban chasm]

i had spent hours on it to fiugre it out

thanks @brittle warren

[brittle warren]

hey you know why this wo8uld be happening #modding-general message

[inner heart]

get some thx rep

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[inner heart]

nope idk how to map

[brittle warren]

ight same im not even trying to map lol im just trying to use the camera path editor but when i open f11 it destrys all maps and doesnt go back when i exit the map editor lol i even did a fresh install lol

[urban chasm]

well i just discovered a new problem

with the wheels lineup most ly the RR wheel just popps off

[brittle warren]

is it as soon as you load the car?

[brittle warren]

#mods-discussion message

[urban chasm]

yes but just one wheel

[brittle warren]

check the collision triangles

[urban chasm]

so far i got it to just pop the tire not send the tire to the moon

[brittle warren]

lol thts better than nothing lol

[urban chasm]

now it doesn't break

just the rear end stands higher than a skyscraper

[brittle warren]

haahah whats your suspension height set too lol

[urban chasm]

well offroad suspension vs standard ifs suspension

here is a picture of it

all wheel steer

so far fwd

[brittle warren]

thats sick

[urban chasm]

the only thing i believe i have to recreate the body for it

sbr4 shell

[brittle warren]

yea isnt the sbr a unibody

[urban chasm]

well soon it is not gonna be

how else are u gonna go offroading in a sbr

[subtle hinge]

Driving off the road, then it's off-road-ing

[meager sable]

can somone help me fix this

[proud sierra]

anyone know why this is happening

[brittle warren]

the red spot on the iphone?

[brittle warren]

check your normals in blender

[proud sierra]

no, whole phone is suposed to be red

[brittle warren]

what does the material editor show

[proud sierra]

idk

[brittle warren]

well thats a vital part of helping lol

[molten sandal]

My new beamng modding career is up keeping and improving someone else’s abandoned mod

[molten sandal]

That’s kinda fire

[brittle warren]

what mod lol and do you have permission

[proud sierra]

idk how

[molten sandal]

I’m just keeping it to myself

[brittle warren]

open world editor with f11 and go up top to the window part and click material editor

[proud sierra]

how what

[brittle warren]

click f11

[proud sierra]

ok?

[brittle warren]

then window

[proud sierra]

i already opened it...

i said now what

[brittle warren]

click on your car

[proud sierra]

yes

[brittle warren]

and then search for the name you gave the material

[proud sierra]

its the 3rd color

so idk

[brittle warren]

well then does the iphone have 2 materials in blender?

[proud sierra]

no

[brittle warren]

then clear cache cause that shouldnt be happening

[proud sierra]

ill try

[brittle warren]

it goes by the direction of the last beam in the chain so whatever way that line is facing it will go like this

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[brittle warren]

yw

[proud sierra]

In game it looks like theres a blurry sticker or the back of a iphone intop of the phone but i know its not supposed to look like that

Wait no

[brittle warren]

go in blender and see if those faces are specificly assigned to that material

[proud sierra]

Its just a very dark shade of the color

[proud sierra]

In blender the whole phone is blue (third color)

[molten sandal]

How do I change the location of jbeam nodes using blender

[brittle warren]

are there overlapping faces you cant see

[brittle warren]

do you have the jbeam importer

[proud sierra]

Don’t think so, i used the same model in my other mod and that one works fine

[molten sandal]

I tried importing that as an addon but it didn’t work

[brittle warren]

then one on hte beam ng website

[molten sandal]

Yea there were 2 addons, the main jbeam and the second one, but only 1 of them would import

[brittle warren]

if you said its using the third color then in the screenshot you sent the red parts shouldve been black

[proud sierra]

Why

The color was set to red?

[brittle warren]

it was set to black

[proud sierra]

No

[brittle warren]

if brightness is allthe way down its black

[proud sierra]

It shows that because the original color was black

Its not, its red

[brittle warren]

so go in game an send a screenshot of it like bright green then halfway through the color selector

[brittle warren]

it has to be the material is different then in blender thats the only thing that it can be if not it would say no texture or no material

[proud sierra]

idk

can u look at it

[brittle warren]

yea send it to me in dm rq

[meager sable]

How do I do that?

[brittle warren]

click face orientation check box

[meager sable]

Thanks

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[brittle warren]

yw

[meager sable]

loeded it up and looks exactly same as yours

[brittle warren]

did you click face orientation cause it should be blue or red

[meager sable]

its both

[brittle warren]

ok so everything thats red on the outside go into edit mode and select thuse part then click mesh at the top and go down to normals and click flip

red is inside blue is outside

[proud solstice]

use L for faster selecting

[brittle warren]

hey you know what would be going wrong with sparkys mod up a little bit

[proud solstice]

who

no idk

[meager sable]

How do I flip it I got it all selected

[brittle warren]

ok been trynna help and his materials are right in blender

[brittle warren]

are you in edit mode

[proud solstice]

shift n

[meager sable]

Thanks

[meager sable]

I’ve done it thanks for your help

[brittle warren]

yw welcome the inside of the car will be invisible tho unless you check double sided on the materials tab

[proud solstice]

(don't)

[meager sable]

How do I do that?

[brittle warren]

well according to him dont do that id make an interior now

[manic beacon]

is this a mod alr thats cool

[proud sierra]

Yes, it is my subwoofer mod for the 200bx

[manic beacon]

the iphone is?

And is it paid?

[proud sierra]

Iphone is included with the subs

And yes its paid, 5$ for the 200bx, dseries, sunburst, and more in the future

Technically i could make the iphone its own thing but i don’t want to separate it atm

Planning on making it for all beamng cars though

[proud sierra]

Included with subs

[eager moss]

any chance anybody can explain why my part is giving a "instability detected" warning? Made a slot for my custom front bar, all the parts for it show up, but the parts have the exact same jbeam as the bumper, even though they are hoops. Does that have anything to do with it? Please help

[acoustic ivy]

is there anyway possible to reduce this bloom on the signal light? without lowering my graphics

[snow ether]

What mod is that

nvm found it

[hexed umbra]

trying to help out iretroex

with his mod

[brittle warren]

whats your question?

[hexed umbra]

I’m trying to update the mod

[brittle warren]

Ok but what isnt working we need to know these things to help

[versed apex]

i'm alr man, thanks anyway tho

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[eager moss]

any chance anybody can explain why my custom part is giving a "instability detected" warning? Made a slot for my custom front bar, all the parts for it show up, but the parts have the exact same jbeam as the bumper, even though they are hoops. Does that have anything to do with it? Please help

[brittle warren]

Anyone in here willing to help me with some lua

[heavy swift]

You find it in the materials file for your mod, which you've no doubt made yourself. It's the glow values for a particular material - you can change the colour and lower the glow there.

[heavy swift]

Depends on what it is.

[sullen canyon]

Can anyone see why my skin isn’t working right? It’s supposed to be colorable, but it’s clearly not working.

[chilly flare]

Call me the middle man in this, as it's a code thing - so I'm just copy pasting.

We have a sphere which is combined with the vehicle bounding box. It's set up in one of the camera.lua files. Search for the function isCameraInside(player, camPos)

[river forge]

Great thank you

[heady trail]

The sphere is 0.6m radius around the driver cam node

You can calculate that manually in vehicle lua if needed as well

[river forge]

Well now I don't have to anymore 😛 thanks!

[small snow]

I tried to create a map, I wanted to use a pixel-perfect texture something like 16x16 pixels (like minecraft), but it was blurry. I also tried modifying the material’s .json file by adding the line:
"filterMode": "Point"
but it didn’t work to.

soi, i upscale the texture to 4K, but this drastically decreased performance.

Do you have any other solutions?

[faint saffron]

i want to put all my skins in the same mod folder so i just have 1 mod for all of the skins. do i have to make a folder in the mod folder (mods > "skin pack name" > vehicles > "vehicles i made the skins for" (vivace, bolide, ....) > "all the skins for that vehicle" > skin PNG / .jbeam files) and then zip everything? i tried other methods but none worked out.

[brittle warren]

Sorry just woke up I'm just trying to make an electric that can control hydros

[keen shadow]

You don’t even have to zip it if you put it in mods/unpacked

[heavy swift]

That sounds simple, what do you need

[brittle warren]

could you dm me and ill explain it more

[novel wagon]

how do i save textures? every time i restart my game my headlight textures dissapear
the textures arent in the local vehicle folder

[distant pendant]

cause they are saved in .33/vehicles/vehicle name, if you've edited them in material editor and saved them that way you then need to take that from there and place it in your /mods/unpacked/vehiclename

[novel wagon]

is it the main materials file in there that i need to put in my mods folder?

[distant pendant]

everything from the folder named under your vehicle

[novel wagon]

thats what i have in that folder

i just dont know if its actually showing up, my mod name is miravaz but the only ones with miravaz in the names are just configs

[distant pendant]

if you dont want your configs transfered over

[novel wagon]

oh okay its that one

thanks 🙏

[distant pendant]

np

[novel wagon]

Strange, i put it into my mod folder and it still doesnt save when i restart the game

doesnt even show up in material editor

i already had a main materials file in my mod folder with other attempts and i pressed replace when moving it over so that its only the new one

okay weird, i just made another new one in the material editor and it doesnt show up in the folder anymore

nope nvm it works mb lol

[distant pendant]

beam doing beam things

[brittle warren]

anyone know why my vehicle keeps spawning weird i have ref nodes

[wide stump]

where is the dae file for these engines?

i looked at the bastion dae and it didnt have engines

[brittle warren]

common folder i believe

[wide stump]

thankyou

[brittle warren]

yea there in common had to check for myself lol

[brittle warren]

anyone know why my flexbody isnt loading in game but does in vs code?

[eager moss]

any chance anybody can explain why my custom part is giving a "instability detected" warning? Made a slot for my custom front bar, all the parts for it show up, but the parts have the exact same jbeam as the bumper, even though they are hoops. Does that have anything to do with it? Please help

[brittle warren]

what does the part look like compared to the jbeam

[eager moss]

Very different, even though it is a small bar hoop, the jbeam is the exact same as the offroad bumper, cuz i ain’t edited yet

[brittle warren]

hmmm try making it load the original flexbody and see if it happens

[eager moss]

Ok i will try

I think it is likely cuz the jbeam is the same

[brittle warren]

did you rename the jbeam to your own like the name in the jbeam and the name of the jbeam file?

[eager moss]

Yea, cuz the custom slot a custom part shows up

[eager moss]

Definitely applied transforms?

[brittle warren]

yes i did lol like 10 times im so confused

[eager moss]

Thats where i become useless lol

[brittle warren]

same lol it worked once before but isnt now lol when u changed the flexbody

[eager moss]

Oh wierd

[brittle warren]

name was wrong in the node group lol

[eager moss]

Oh right haha

[sour glen]

any reason for this to happen lol? any time i try to put on my side skirt this happens.

Nvm fixed it

[summer vault]

stuff like that can happen when youve got no material assigned to a mesh

[acoustic ivy]

i found it and the mod wasnt made by me im learning by fixing the mod and i adjust everything it has 1 value but what ever i do it does not decrease but if i put it in 0 it will not work(ofc)

[eager moss]

any chance anybody can explain why my custom part is giving a "instability detected" warning? Made a slot for my custom front bar, all the parts for it show up, but the parts have the exact same jbeam as the bumper, even though they are hoops. Does that have anything to do with it? Please help

[urban chasm]

help please with this trying to make keybinding for forks

[dry cargo]

How do I make snowchains....in blender. How can we make a mod thats free for all thats snowchains that have propper physics

Can we agree to make that a reality this winter and enjoy cars being torn apart from driving too fast in snow chains

[brittle warren]

proper physics on tire chaines would probably ruin the frame rate

[proud sierra]

Anyone here got a leather texture that works with beam thats not just orange lol

[brittle warren]

go on ambient cg

thre all free

[proud sierra]

Ok

[dry cargo]

I feeel like it can be worked sround so it doesnt kill the fps ...

[tacit halo]

nope i dont think you can do that

idk if theres a way to increase grip only in snow in the jbeam of a tire but the way beamng works snowchains arent a posibility

the tire nodes are proceduraly generated so dont have actual node names and i dont think you can attach anything to them

and the chains in themselves are too small so i dont know how youd make the jbeam small enough to not be overly big, but big enough to actualy do something

and theres no proper snow/ice simulation in beamng, you cant grip a flat surface (since esentially the vanilla game ice is just a slippery road material)

[ruby kestrel]

I'm thinking of adding a weigh station to a map I'm making. Would there be any way to build it into the map, rather than have players spawn their own? I assume it would be possible using Lua in some way, but I'm not sure how to go about adding Lua scripts to a map either.

[distant pendant]

you can actually add the weight object from vehicle selector in asset manager in world editor then save world and it'll spawn when you load in map

[signal shell]

Damn, that sounds like a nice additon

[ruby kestrel]

I genuinely didn't even think to just save an actual weight pad from the menu, thanks!

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[proud sierra]

How do i mod a steering wheel

[dry cargo]

Is it possible to make tires collide with everything? Not just water etc

Instead of clipping through body panels?

[tacit halo]

yes but i think it would just cause instabilities since a colision triangle spinning at high speeds coming in contact with a body panel just seems like a good way to explode

[dry cargo]

I got one request. To be the beta tester for that sort of mod or submersible mods. I will give decent feedback every time

I will probably end up sacrificing my $600 computer for you ALL to enjoy beam ng drive with a bit more QOL updates and mods

And before anyone thinks about it do not recreate ocean gate. Just dont. Im not very fond of those kinds of mods that mimic tragedy

Ok..... heres the plan if anyones with me. Someone should design a depth pool thats half a mile wide but goes down to 100 thousand meters down or more. If you feel like getting a mile depth out of a map like that hell yeah

Thatd be the place I test designs for things to crush depth and give it a rating in beam

And hopefully not break my pc lol

(Im sorry I talk too much)

[strong yacht]

hello how to fix this? and how to add openable doors + interactive buttons eg: engine start

[novel wagon]

how can i fix this?? the hood is not smooth at all

[distant pendant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoKcZEPwMqM

[novel wagon]

thanks 👍

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[distant pendant]

probably won't happen, mods take a great deal of time and man modders are self testers anyways. Don't need to send a unfinished mod to a random person to have it then reuploaded to mod land (not saying that you would but thats what happens)

[dry cargo]

My point is if you need a LOW TIER pc user to give honest feedback im your guy till I a stronger set of graphics or something

[distant pendant]

nobody is gonna do that

[compact plover]

does anyone here knows how i can make a normal skin to a colour skin?

[distant pendant]

huh

[compact plover]

okay i have a couple of already existing skins but how do i make them into a color skin cause i cant edit the colour or when i do it switches the the paint 1 colour

i hope yall understood 😭

[brittle warren]

do you want the stripes to change color?

[eager moss]

any chance anybody can explain why my custom part is giving a "instability detected" warning? Made a slot for my custom front bar, all the parts for it show up, but the parts have the exact same jbeam as the bumper, even though they are hoops. Does that have anything to do with it? Please help

[regal knoll]

brazil me

[distant pendant]

what do you mean hoops?

I don't think your getting any help is because your post is quite confusing.

can you show pictures?

[eager moss]

maybe later once im on

[distant pendant]

just tag me

[eager moss]

a hoop is the top part, the things that protect the lights and grille

[distant pendant]

just tag me with jbeam pic when your on

[eager moss]

ok

[eager moss]

not really much jbeam to show, here are the steps i took:

1. make the bumper in blender

2. create a meshlap jbeam and reference that bar (works fine)

3. in the jbeam file, create slot called "hoops"

[distant pendant]

why create slot? for a bumper thats already has a slot

[eager moss]

4. copy and paste that jbeam bar file, change slot type to "hoops", remove all slots, rename and reference another blender part, a hoop

[eager moss]

because i want a slot underneath the bumper, I want one bar, with different hoop options

[eager moss]

this part would show up in part config, when I select it it just pauses game and gives "instability" warning

[distant pendant]

so the jbeam is the same as bumper is what your saying

[eager moss]

yea

haven't changed it yet, most likely the problem

[distant pendant]

so you have two overlapping jbeams

[eager moss]

yes

that the problem?

[distant pendant]

You should never skip parts.
Jbeam is the skeleton for the mesh to follow. It is physical and if you overlap it, it will collide within itself.

you can use the jbeam tool for blender

https://www.beamng.com/threads/blender-jbeam-editor.94204/

instead you need to move the nodes so they are the basic simple shape of your model

[eager moss]

yea know how to jbeam, however haven't gotten to it yet. just wanted to try the slot creation first, I will see if I can fix it later

[ruby kestrel]

So, should've thought of this ahead of time, but..
you can tab over to the saved vehicles in the map
which is, not ideal. Any way to prevent that?

[distant pendant]

unfortantely I haven't found a way

[ruby kestrel]

😔 darn

[mental estuary]

How do you add working gas stations and EV chargers? I tried copying the files from a vanilla map and renaming everything to match, but nothing worked!

[compact plover]

Yes

[eager moss]

substance painter 3d

on steam

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[eager moss]

no problem, but its hard to learn

no its really expensive

usd 200

or a sub through adobe

like 20-30 a month

[eager moss]

sorry i got no idea what that is

its 290 in aussie money

[near gorge]

does Renderer components have a path I can use to change values like I can with scenetree? ex. 'scenetree.sunsky.skyBrightness'

[graceful bough]

can someone help me

where does the art folder go?

[eager moss]

for what? a map?

[graceful bough]

for a car

for the sound i think

[eager moss]

oh im not sure sorry

[graceful bough]

anyone know?

[brittle warren]

dont spam it bruh people will see ur comment still

and it would go in the mod folder next to vehicles not in the vehicles folder

[heavy swift]

What do you mean "where does it go", it stays in the mod folder.

[dry cargo]

Can someone help me bring racetracks that you can just go absolutely all out in any car with into beam ng drive??

[eager moss]

have a question for mapping... I have imported a model from sketchfab using Spealers tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLozcVaaHTc , and my shape shows no texture. Everything else works fine. Tried to do what he did to fix it, don't really get what he did, how would I fix this?

[mental estuary]

Hello?

[wheat copper]

whats actually the issue?

follow the tutorial and say what part is not working

[minor moth]

not an expert or anything but im pretty sure gas stations have triggers (like invisible ones in world editor)

so you might need to place those too

[ruby kestrel]

i recall reading somewhere long ago that gas stations have to be defined in a file manually somewhere

you need the gameplay area and the icon thingie as well, but then also define it somehow in some file

[short orchid]

hello guys im new to this server and i wanted to ask where i can find agents simplified traffic mod

[tacit halo]

https://discord.com/channels/710082165253079061/1290433274979811444

[short orchid]

thanks

is there a download link already?

[tacit halo]

[WIP] = Work In progres = Not released

[crystal cipher]

I've been working on a bumper and it appears in the modifications menu but it completely messes up the vehicle and won't spawn in, any idea on how to fix this?

Also I know the photo was taken off my phone, it's because snipping tool doesn't work with Beamng for me

[gentle fox]

Probably a node issue in the jbeam you made. Try checking the console for errors

[safe surge]

It doesn't work because beamng is in fullscreen. That's why it isn't working for me.

[crystal cipher]

I used the Bull bar J-Beam and I just modified the names

[eager moss]

The shape shows no texture, but someone else has helped me fix it so should be good when i try later

[eager moss]

Bruh i did exactly that can u read

[eager moss]

what mod? like a map, car, car part?

if you have never made a mod before... you will find it extremely hard. Unless you are an experienced modder, choose on of the others to start with. Car parts are useful to help build up knowledge on how to create a simple meshlap car oneday

I can help you learn how to do that if u want

here is a good tut to get u started: https://www.beamng.com/threads/tutorial-making-a-custom-part-for-a-vanilla-car.82050/

or you can follow my own one: https://www.beamng.com/threads/how-to-create-a-custom-part-for-linux-and-windows.100991/

have friend requested @dry cargo so I can DM

[wheat copper]

it’s not that simple

[eager moss]

true point, but i have sorted something out with him so he can learn how to make parts

[wheat copper]

I tried to jump straight into building a car and it’s been a white gavriel that flys off into the stratosphere on my pc for a year now

[eager moss]

huh. whats a flying gavril got to do with what i said

[wheat copper]

Im sayings it’s difficult bruh

[eager moss]

i know that i make mods. and. i said i was helping him make parts

[wheat copper]

yeah i see?

[eager moss]

bro wtf are you trying to tell me. the modding thing is fixed. full stop.

[wheat copper]

what are you trying to tell me? 😂 what is the modding thing?

[eager moss]

he is now able to mod. there is no reason for u to fucking respond mate

[wheat copper]

mate… who are you mad at?

[eager moss]

look im not mad at anyone... but why are you responding to me? he can now mod. full stop. why has this become u responding with random messages

[wheat copper]

I’m literally not saying shit to anybody and you’re going off… you literally responded to me what?

[eager moss]

bro... he can now make parts, we are done on that topic

all im trying to say

[wheat copper]

alright yknow you could’ve just like… left it at that yeah?

no need for all this ay

I’m literally backing your point and just giving a personal experience like… let’s keep it civil please

[eager moss]

u were the one who responded to me saying modding is hard. i had already sorted something out with him. sorry for blowing up but u just kinda responded about shit u didnt need to. u at first seemed like you were trying to say i was putting modding down and i had no idea

sorry for being an ass, its resolved, it was a misunderstanding

[eager moss]

we just both worded our messages wrong

[wheat copper]

yeah wasn’t my intention, all good mate

[eager moss]

thanks, wasn't my intention either. just thought u were being a dick, u weren't

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[wheat copper]

chillin <3

[graceful bough]

i dont have a mod folder?

[eager moss]

huh? u should

[graceful bough]

im show u my mods rn

[eager moss]

wrong spot, you aren't in the 0.33 area

[graceful bough]

huh? where do i go

[eager moss]

wait a sec

https://documentation.beamng.com/tutorials/mods/installing-mods/

manual installation section

@graceful bough https://documentation.beamng.com/support/userfolder/

theres ur userfolder

[graceful bough]

is there a youtube video? i can follow

i hate reading with all my heart

[eager moss]

its pretty easy to follow

but yes there are

[graceful bough]

which one do i do first? how to instal or userfolder

[eager moss]

its really easy to read tho

[eager moss]

userfolder

[graceful bough]

@eager moss

[eager moss]

@graceful bough literally just follow the steps for the userfolder, go into the mods folder, and paste any .zip files for your mods

[graceful bough]

i see this now

[eager moss]

@graceful bough no.1 tip, never download mods from Modland, WorldofMods, or any other website than the Beamng.Drive forums

or trusted discord servers

[graceful bough]

okay

do i just put my mods in there and im good?

[eager moss]

or you will get directed to a popup ad with viruses, or you will be downloading a leaked mod, which will get u banned from discord mod servers

[graceful bough]

btw do i put both files in mods?

[eager moss]

yes

[graceful bough]

oh dang

[eager moss]

no, neither

[graceful bough]

huh?

[eager moss]

it has to be a .zip

[graceful bough]

it is zim

zip

[eager moss]

they look like normal folders

[graceful bough]

i think

do i convert it into zip?

[eager moss]

send a pic of the file that those are in

[eager moss]

just copy that and paste in mods folder

[eager moss]

should work

[graceful bough]

thats it?

[eager moss]

never need to extract

[eager moss]

yep

[graceful bough]

wow im see if it works now

[eager moss]

k

[graceful bough]

yooo it workeedd

tysm for helping me

thanks so much @eager moss for helping me

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[eager moss]

no problem

[west stump]

Does anyone know how to to merge 5 mods into one file?

[brittle warren]

why? are they all for the same car?

[west stump]

No, its a modpack

[brittle warren]

is it your mod?

[west stump]

Yes

[brittle warren]

Do something like that

[west stump]

already tried that

didnt work

[brittle warren]

It shouldve? Try doing vehicles common then put your name or something then add all the folders

[west stump]

okay ill try that

[brittle warren]

Idk if thats the correct way to do it but i know it works if the other way didnt

[west stump]

ill try both ways

i need to turn all the files into one zip file

[brittle warren]

well if you can get them all to work in one unpacked mod then you would just click pack in the mod manager

[west stump]

oh yeah

[west stump]

it works thanks a lot

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[brittle warren]

yw bro

[eager moss]

as soon as i zoom out a bit it the texture stops working, can anybody help?

[cosmic laurel]

Is it changing to a LOD with a different/no material assigned?

[eager moss]

I think, how would i fix it?

[brittle warren]

Look at all your lod models and see which one is missing a material in blender

[ruby kestrel]

I can tell you a more bootlegged way to fix it lmao

disable Dynamic rendering and force the LOD to 1

[mental estuary]

What Aussie map is that going to be?

[graceful bough]

what mod website should i download mods from?

@eager moss is this good?

[proud solstice]

that is literally beamng's official page

which is also integrated in-game via the repository

[graceful bough]

is this good for downloading mods?

whhat is a site good ofor downloadwing

[proud solstice]

official site and reputable paid mods

[graceful bough]

real life car mods

i have 10 dollars

what is a good paid mods

[proud solstice]

unfortunately real cars aren't part of the good paid mods

[graceful bough]

what a good site

for paid mods?

[proud solstice]

gumroad/ko-fi/patreon

[graceful bough]

can you send me a link of a site you would use?

[proud solstice]

I just mentioned them

[graceful bough]

which one is the best

overall?

[proud solstice]

there is no "best"

depends what you're looking for

[west stump]

Ko-fi is the best imo

[graceful bough]

oh okay thanks @proud solstice and @west stump

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[west stump]

Np

[graceful bough]

im on ko-fi what do i do now?

[west stump]

If you’re looking for good paid mods then search them up on youtube or Google

I just meant Kofi is a good website overall

[graceful bough]

oh ookay

thanks @west stump

[west stump]

I suggest LucasBE, their mods are paid but great

[west stump]

No problem

[brittle warren]

Second that

[eager moss]

Its my ValleyView outback map, will be released on forums but my server link is in profile

[crystal cipher]

Which DDS image is it for the bolides taillights?

[next yacht]

can someone help with tuneable gears for the hoonitruck mod im working on im helping my jbeam guy out

[eager moss]

seems to be fine

[brittle warren]

did you end up fixing it or is it still messed up

[eager moss]

nope i cleared cache and it just ain't working at all now

[brittle warren]

deep clean or standard?

[eager moss]

deep

[brittle warren]

ok and are your lods named exactly right im not too versed in lods but these are the things id check and do you mean the sign as a whole isn't working now or just the lods

[eager moss]

sign has no texture rn

[brittle warren]

what does the materail say in the shape editor

[eager moss]

Wdym

I can send a screenshot tomorrow

After lunch in my time, for reference it’s about 7:30pm rn

[mental estuary]

I'm a little confused right now. I tried to do it by looking at a vanilla map, and replicating it. I got the EV charger to work but the gas station is not.

[minor moth]

hm weird

any console errors or stuff

[wheat copper]

anybody know why I cant see the material of my road?

[wheat copper]

the entire thing is invisible

and even if i make a new road decal thats tiny

its invisible

[meager sable]

I’m making a car and the axle of the etk is tk far forward but I don’t no how to move it back does anyone no how?

[crystal cipher]

In the J-Beam you should be able to change the nose values

[meager sable]

Will the wheels go back aswell?

[crystal cipher]

They should do

I've not really done the drivetrain side of things though, I'm more working on cosmetics so I'm not too sure about it though

[meager sable]

Ok thanks

[wheat copper]

whys is this games world editor so utterly and absolutely fucked? like literally everything just stops fucking working randomly for no fucking reason not even a nasa engineer could conceive of the cause of such stupid issues...

[distant pendant]

do you have a terrain block setup?

[wheat copper]

no

[distant pendant]

do you know how to do that?

[wheat copper]

ofc

[distant pendant]

add a terrain block

decals need it

[wheat copper]

is there some specific place this terrain block needs to be or just anywhere in my map

[distant pendant]

underneath the map, make sure its rendered invisible

needs to cover spread of map underneath

[wheat copper]

alright ill try that

[distant pendant]

if you run into any issues tag me

[wheat copper]

terrain editor doesn’t work

no brush does anything

and im assuming I don’t want maxheight to be 0

[distant pendant]

terrain block.

no brush

[wheat copper]

yeah ik

[distant pendant]

ill show you

[distant pendant]

its under map yes?

[wheat copper]

the terrain block is yes

the actual terrain no

[distant pendant]

put it under the terrain

and then you'll probably have to redraw your decals

[wheat copper]

decal road showed for a bit then just stopped working again

[distant pendant]

check your render priority on your decals

[wheat copper]

reset the whole map fixed it

thanks ur a g for that

[wheat copper]

taken me days to get here 😂

if u wanna help with one more thing, idk if this is actually possible but can i change the surface physics?

make everything outside dirt

[distant pendant]

terrain paint i believe

[urban chasm]

is there a good tutorial or documention on "powertrainhydros"

with also input actions

[west kiln]

WHATS WRONG!!?!?!?

trees wont paint!!

[cosmic laurel]

is there a way to decide which parked vehicle configs spawn for a map as traffic? i can see how to do it for driving vehicles but there doesnt seem to be a file for parked vehicles in the maps folders

[frank saddle]

Hello! I have a mod (not the creator) that has a steering wheel that is rotating off center, I wanted to center it before it drives me crazy.
Could someone help me locate where this is defined?
I have tried to alter all the values on baseRotation, rotation, translation etc but those seems to be unrelated to the "center" placement of it.
Was hoping I could find some simple x,y,z I could change.

[viral juniper]

Origin point within blender

[frank saddle]

Thanks for answering!

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[viral juniper]

No problem
If you need help with how to actually move the origin, it is pretty simple
You just need to load the .dae into blender, head over to options at the top right and check Origins
Then you can select the steering wheel mesh, hit G and then Z
Then you can overwrite the .dae file

[frank saddle]

Thanks, that didn't sound too hard after all, I have no experience with blender, but have wanted to try it out

[frank saddle]

Yea, could not find anything that made sense in the dae file, I'll try download blender and give it a go

[frank saddle]

It's not in the center when I import it, does that matter or does it have it's own "center" values?

[viral juniper]

Probably is being put in place by the JBeam, in this case I would position it (in blender) by the Y axis rather than the Z axis

[river forge]

General location in the blender scene doesn't matter

Just the location relative to the origin (orange dot)

This might help you out a bit https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/1291/change-pivot-or-local-origin-of-an-object

[frank saddle]

Do I need to reload the game in any different way for this? I have moved it around and exported it, but it does not look like it changed anything. Usually when I have changed the files a CTRL + R have been enough to reload file changes

[unique zealot]

export the dae and then press ctrl + r to refresh the car

[meager sable]

can someone help ive got everything right (i think) and its still not showing up and when i put in gear wont move but it its the etk800 suspension with the 2l inline 4 from the 200 bx it reves bu but if i put front dif files in works fine in fwd but needs to be rwd

[dry cargo]

why are the model and impostor texture misaligned? I edited defailt beam files

[meager sable]

anyone got any ideas what it could be?

[frank saddle]

Nvm, it randomly decided to load, thanks for the help @viral juniper and @river forge !

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[covert bear]

How difficult is it to make an engine swap for someone thats never done a beamNG mod before?

[frank saddle]

Hm, @viral juniper (Sorry to ping you again) I changed the Origin point on the rest of the wheels, but this happened for some reason now, got any clue? Any checkboxes or such I need to have when exporting?

[river forge]

Check the objects materials name in blender, if it has .001 or something like that behind it, rename it to remove that bit

Blender tends to do that when copying stuff

[frank saddle]

Like these?

[river forge]

Yeah, get rid of the .012

[little portal]

https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/material-utilities/

[frank saddle]

Thanks! Could not first figure out how to rename it, but I found a select menu where I could select the older copies

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[eager moss]

Does anyone know how to set the time you spawn in on a map? I want to make it so that my map spawns in the morning

[brittle warren]

i think its this in levelinfo

[eager moss]

Ok, I will check later this arvo

[ember cliff]

why my doors,taillight and bumper not showing up

and tailgate

all did was add a aftermarket bullbar😢😢

[brittle warren]

did you export the body and stuff in your dae cause that happens to me when i do that

[ember cliff]

i did not

i only exported the bullbar

[brittle warren]

like you clicked selected only? and if so thats odd also dont name it roamer.dae make a custon name casue when its named roamer.dae it trys to overwrite the base game dae

[ember cliff]

ye also i changed teh name a bit after

[brittle warren]

go into your 0.33 folder and go to vehicles roamer and delete the cached dts and reload

[ember cliff]

alright

[ember cliff]

can i just do a lil calm luh temp delete thing

clear cahce

[brittle warren]

i mean you would have to deep clean cache its easier to delete just the one file but deep clean is best it should fix it

[ember wagon]

how does engine braking work in the engine jbeam file is it a constant over all rpm or a table and the value is the peak torque?

"engineBrakeTorque":55,

[balmy rapids]

911 gt3rs?

[frank saddle]

Yes, 911 992

[balmy rapids]

that is an issue by the guy who made it

[frank saddle]

Question, I liked the brake callipers on the Scintilla, so I added it to another vehicle and placed them where they are supposed to sit (physically), everything works great, but, if I do not load the Scintilla in once during the playtime, it will be invisible. Likely the way I did is not how you are supposed to do it, can I add anything to make them load or do I need to copy the assets over to the other car as well? Best would probably to add it properly with new names and such

[frank saddle]

Sure, but he isn't active/available anymore. So I decided to just fix it for my own sake.

[formal marsh]

Did my messages with questions get deleted from last night?

NO I WAS IN THE WRONG SERVER ALL TOGETHER NO WONDER 🤦‍♂️

Okay so im trying to make a simple map with the roads architect. I made a few roads but they didnt have the road texture and it was still dirt. So I looked at a video where a guy used the terrain painter to put the road surface on the road. BUT I underestimated how hard it would be to figure out how to use the terrain painter and accidentally painted the whole world asphalt but still with the dirt grip 🙃

I was just working off the plain island so I think I had to import the road material/texture? And some how replaced the whole world with it.

Also how do I make my world show up In the freeroam world select menu? I created a new folder in levels but I have to load a map, open editor and open my map through there

marvelous the world is no longer black but now green

[hazy rampart]

excellent

[formal marsh]

okay now we're getting somewhere

[frank saddle]

Should I compress mods or just store them in the .zip? I guess trade filesize for loadtime?

[river forge]

'storing them in the .zip' also means they're compressed

[frank saddle]

True, but nothing compared to heavier compression

i.e 470 mb uncompressed, 460 mb store or 116 mb with "normal" in 7zip

[river forge]

just use the in-game mods manager to pack or unpack mods

[silent haven]

How to bake light textures?I have some issue on my new mod

[formal marsh]

we have made some incredible progress bois it will NEVER be dark

dont tell me im gonna have to place a light source manually at each of these

[distant pendant]

you also don't understand how much of a impact to game performance all those lights will have

[formal marsh]

I messed up placing this intersection and Idk how to delete it

[formal marsh]

dont make me commit to it out of spite

[formal marsh]

Also am I suppoed to be able to Ctrl Z or do I have to turn on a setting somewhere?

Im trying to delete things out of the Scene Tree and pressing the delete key doesnt work I have to manually right click and press delete on each thing one at a time, Im unable to highlight multiple things

[ruby kestrel]

Quick question. Is there a way to increase/change at all the amount of particles kicked in the air by the Ground Model for my map? The area I am creating either doesnt use, or has very little, dust palliative for gravel roads, and the teensy tiny bit of dust being kicked up as I drive along is really throwing me off lol. Dirt road particles are way better, but I need the gravel ground model specifically for its handling and sfx.

(For contrast, here's a gravel road from my dashcam in this area.)

[formal marsh]

lmao thats cool

[formal marsh]

Okay I think I have a better idea of what I did, it becomes a much bigger pain to remove the intersection if you attach a road to it.

Im restarting making all the roads since my save has that bugged intersection stuck there and plus i know more about how to use it better

[brittle warren]

this is for burnout smoke but its the same for the gravel dust and stuff its the same filehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_5sT7KwxLA

you just have to make sure to put it in your mod map folder with the same file structure as the stock beam one so it only loads with your map

[ruby kestrel]

Thank you!!

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[ruby kestrel]

Precisely what I needed, awesome!

[glad ivy]

Does anybody know how one would go about changing these signs

[static forge]

can anyone help me understand Jbeams better cause I want to convert a car I made into BeamNG its a 2008 trailblazer SS ive seen a lot of topics of people wanting this vehicle

thats the model I made Im changing the wheels ofcourse cause I want them customizable on beamng just need help converting if anyone can help me get a better understanding of it

[brittle warren]

anyone got a fix for this?

[onyx temple]

yo i need help rq

[brittle warren]

with?

[ember cliff]

yo why my bullbar going like this

[warm sphinx]

Change the image texture for them with a photo editing software

[glad ivy]

I cant find the original texture anywhere

Texture editor just brings up a no texture block with the name “-35” or something

[small snow]

Does anybody know how to un blur a texture, like in Minecraft ?

[gentle fox]

you need to add the dae files and the textures so it is either in the common vehicle folder or the vehicle you want to add them to vehicle folder

[frank saddle]

Thank you! I assume if I do no renaming, it could cause it to show up on the original vehicle depending on the load order?

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[tough sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/delete-erase-not-worth-forget-it-clean-slate-gif-8510937

[gentle fox]

Yeah you should rename it, but it shouldnt really cause issues as long as its not in the common directory. The issue that would happen would just be that the game sees duplicates and gives an error afaik.

[frank saddle]

Thank you! I will try that

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[ebon shuttle]

I use a 3km-large decal as a blueprint of my roads, last I opened the map it was showing even from afar, but now it only show up if I reduce the size to around 30-40m large

[crystal cipher]

What app would people recommend for editing the DDS images?

[warm sphinx]

Paint.net or photoshop

[crystal cipher]

Ok, thank you

People who've modded the bolide, where is the the taillights texture in the J-BEAM?

[low crow]

how would i get the drive way onto where i coverd on the grass, ps all of that is one object and idk how to use shape editor or to switch out part of the grass the be the drive way texture

[proud sierra]

Find aomething concrete and size it and copy/paste it till i got a driveway

Also how shakey are you hands😭

[proud sierra]

Textures arent in jbeams

[crystal cipher]

Oh, I thought there was an area in it for the name and it says which texture to use

[proud sierra]

Textures are in the model/dae

[crystal cipher]

Oh, how do you apply them then?

[proud sierra]

There already applied, there color in blender is just gray but in game its different

[crystal cipher]

So how do you apply the DDS images to the item

Because I'm trying to get my taillights to stop having the

[proud sierra]

Are they your taillights or the stock ones

Like your model?

[crystal cipher]

I've edited the stock ones

[proud sierra]

Show

Your blender

[proud sierra]

Alr

[crystal cipher]

This is the best image I have atm

[proud sierra]

Are you at your pc?

[crystal cipher]

Nope

About to go to bed

Its nearly midnight

[proud sierra]

If you want i could take a look at them and try to apply textures if you send the model

[crystal cipher]

Yeah, I will in the morning

[proud sierra]

Alr

[crystal cipher]

I'm doing them for another person's project though

[proud sierra]

Wheres your taillight glass?

[crystal cipher]

But it should be fine

[proud sierra]

Ok

[crystal cipher]

I had moved it for the modeling, it is there it was just moved above the inside of the light

[proud sierra]

O ok

[crystal cipher]

Yeah, I just grabbed the object and moved it up 0.25 of a meter

[proud sierra]

Tmwr are you ok to vc or

[crystal cipher]

I should be

[proud sierra]

Ok

[crystal cipher]

If you DM me tonight I'll reply when I get on

[proud sierra]

That tailight reminds me of this one #1201184330156867664 message

[cursive tartan]

how does one go about making a map of a real location?

[west stump]

does anyone know why this isnt working?

[river forge]

I think these two have to be the same

Not completely sure, I always just make all 3 of them the same

[west stump]

I'll try it but I'm 80% sure it doesn't matter

[river forge]

Worth a shot 🤷 I don't see anything else that could cause the

Did you clear cache? Materials can be a bit of mess to work on sometimes

[west stump]

That's why I'm confused as well, I'll try it for sure

[west stump]

That's also something I haven't tried

[proven dune]

[grand hemlock]

What application/Editor should I use to make custom skins?

[river forge]

Paint.net/Gimp/Photoshop for the textures

And any text editor for the .jbeam and .json files (I'd recommend something like Visual Studio Code or Notepad++, but even the standard notepad app built into Windows will do the trick)

[grand hemlock]

Arnt all of those paid apps?

[river forge]

No, only Photoshop is paid

I personally use Paint.net, since for Gimp I think you'd need an extra plugin to edit .dds files

[unkempt valley]

I make all my skins in the Vehicle Livery Editor in the f11 menu

[west stump]

i tried both but still doesnt work

[proud sierra]

Your pc also already had gimp i believe

[west stump]

If anyone knows what the issue is, please lmk

[near gorge]

does Renderer components have a path I can use to change values like I can with scenetree? ex. 'scenetree.sunsky.skyBrightness'

(bump)

[oak parcel]

have made this livery for the 2000 pessima, as one can see the trim is white

something about an opacity map i've been told but i'm not entirely sure what exactly i'm surposed to do

may sound silly but i'm utterly clueless

[brittle warren]

is the material file in the right spot?

[west stump]

Yes

In the vivace folder

[brittle warren]

Is it called main.materials?

[west stump]

No

I changed the materials.json file name so it doesn't affect the normal one

[brittle warren]

Hmm i would suggest using vs code too see if it throws any errors cause as far as i can see it looks right are those stock materials by chance?

[west stump]

How do you do the vs code thing? And what do you mean by stock?

[brittle warren]

like are those materials from in the game and when you open the materials file in vs code at the bottomtheres a spot that errors wwill show up

[west stump]

No I got the materials from somewhere else

The default materials work fine

[brittle warren]

hmm thats odd what does the consle say

[west stump]

I haven't checked yet, I'm not on my PC rn

I'll lyk

[brittle warren]

oh ok and alright

[kind orbit]

I got these buncha files laying around in my map's "art" folder and I'm not sure which smaller folder they should go in

smaller folders that all the other stuff is in for reference

Could really use some help

[brittle warren]

Why do you have cached.dts files but if thoses .dds files are anywhere listed in a material file they would need to be remapped

[kind orbit]

I dunno, ask the guys who made the beamNG techdemo back in 2013

(I'm porting it to somewhat work with 0.33)

[brittle warren]

ohhh yea id say check all of your materials and see which ones use the .dds files and then remap them once you move them to a new folder

[kind orbit]

How do I remap them

And I'm asking for tips on which files would go into which folder

[brittle warren]

so in the material file it would show this wich is pointing to your .dds files you would just change the file path to your new file path and i would say put the dts files in your shapes folder and id make a new folder for the .dds files if your wanting to move them

[kind orbit]

Do I open them in vsc or editor

[brittle warren]

vs code

[kind orbit]

I don't have vsc :(

I'm sure editor will be fiiine

[brittle warren]

you can also use notepad i just use vs code cause its way betterr

[kind orbit]

Alright

And what should the new folder for the .dds files be called

[kind orbit]

Since these folders do have stuff in them

more dds files, so maybe I thought these free ones would have to go into some of those

[brittle warren]

Id say name it Like NewTextures or something since your just trying to make it look less cluttered if not i would just leave them imo since they were already like that so you dont have to mess with trying to find them in the masterials files im pretty sure the tech demo also uses materials.cs doesnt it?

[kind orbit]

Yep, the techdemo uses materials.cs which someone else told me to put in the shapes folder

So I just leave those files there, put the dts files in shapes, and it should work

Right?

Well since I did that I'll leave it at that

[brittle warren]

Sorry and yea i mean i would im not sure if materials.cs works in the newer version but you can try it what map u porting

[kind orbit]

I'm porting the main menu map from the tech demo title screen

[brittle warren]

oh thats sick

[kind orbit]

I'm having issues with it doe, a friend of mine is testing it and it doesn't seem to work

[brittle warren]

yea im trynna do it to now lol and since its not considered a level its gonna be a pain

[kind orbit]

I mean, all I did was put it into a levels folder

and made a skybox folder with some stuff in it

[brittle warren]

Wich version of the techdemo are you using?

[kind orbit]

v2.1

Wait what are you planning

[brittle warren]

Im trynna also figure it out so i can help lol i have that version of the tech demo lol

[kind orbit]

Ah, I could've just sent you a google drive link with all the folders so you could look at em lol

[brittle warren]

yea but i cant seem to find were its calling the level for the start up screen

[kind orbit]

There is a levels folder in the main directory which has the gridmap and menu in it

[brittle warren]

yea but thats for just the pure grid tho not the main menu map cause that isnt the same map

[kind orbit]

That ain't the same techdemo

I mixed it up - I have the techdemo v0.3 from august 2013

[brittle warren]

oh lol where you get .3 at

[kind orbit]

Someone on the forums had a archive.org link in a discussion about the cryengine3 (rip) versions

[brittle warren]

damn i cant find it lol

[kind orbit]

https://archive.org/details/beamng-techdemo-0.3-setup_201907

[brittle warren]

bet gonna look now you had me going down weird rabbit holes trynna find the forum post lol

[kind orbit]

lol

[distant pendant]

idt the game would of been as it is w/ cry engine tbh

[kind orbit]

Never said they shoulda stuck with cryengine, hell no, but it is a shame that the builds are all either gone or just.. hidden

[distant pendant]

oh i didnt mean to imply you did

[kind orbit]

alr

[kind orbit]

You got it?

[brittle warren]

yea i got it im trynna figure out how to get it to show in map selector

[kind orbit]

According to my friend it does show in the map selector, but it doesn't load

[brittle warren]

got it

[kind orbit]

No trees though

The original map has a lot of trees and bushes

[brittle warren]

Yea im trynna figurer that out now

[kind orbit]

If you do, please tell me how to do it so I can quickly update the files

[brittle warren]

Is it these ones?

[kind orbit]

Yep

[brittle warren]

hmm ok there spawning in the wrong spot then

[brittle warren]

im not sure if this is right

[kind orbit]

Nah it ain't

This is what it looks like

[brittle warren]

Whys mine blurry?

[kind orbit]

Maybe cause of your fog, idk

[brittle warren]

i fixed it i had moved the map files instead of coping it

[kind orbit]

Ah

Could you tell me how you do it

Since I wanna upload it to the repo

[brittle warren]

i just copied the map folder and put it in my unpacked folder

[kind orbit]

What's the new folder for

[brittle warren]

its empty i just didnt delete it

[kind orbit]

Alright

So this is fine?

[brittle warren]

looks right to me

[kind orbit]

Alright great!

[kind orbit]

So all I have to do is pack all of this into a zip and upload it?

[brittle warren]

yes sir i think so idk how to upload to the repo like the ingame one i just use the forum

[kind orbit]

Yeah that's what I wanna do

Thanks for all the help! I appreciate it

Oh one last thing, do I need this BNG_Sky folder or not

[brittle warren]

i dont even have that so i dont think so

[kind orbit]

Alr

[brittle warren]

it looks sick at night

[kind orbit]

Oh btw what version did you test it in

[brittle warren]

the newest version

[kind orbit]

Great

<@&710084482031550547>

we got a scambot on our hands

[low crow]

i was just trying to make it cover the area

[proud sierra]

Lol

[proud sierra]

Everyone looking at that car is now blind

[brittle warren]

hahah if you go blind from leds then thats your fault

[royal crater]

months later and I figured out that this is a result of the VS Code plugin they've made. If I have the curser on a node in vs code, then it'll highlight in the game

[brittle warren]

If I would've seen this message I would've told ya i use that feature a lot lol

[proud sierra]

Why is my fender chrome…

Its painted in blender and theres no livery

[royal crater]

is there a debug to know where clunks are coming from? When working on new cars, they'll often spawn in with a clunk, but it takes guess work to know what's happening

[royal crater]

make sure your UV maps are good, and that there's only 2

[pallid furnace]

I wanna try and build an elaborate mod. Idk where to begin tbh. But I wanna try and make smt where a vehicle can transform into a semi playble character in game.

It's probably not at all possible. But I still wanna have a go.

(Naturally this mod would br transformers themed. I haven't the slightest idea how I'm gonna go abt it cause Idk shit abt code. But I still wanna try.)

[royal crater]

It's possible, but would take quite a long time if you know what you're doing it, and if you don't, it would take a huge amount of time. How about watching some videos on how to mod first, or start with this starter tutorial - https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/tutorials/basic_car_tutorial/

[pallid furnace]

Thx

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @royal crater (current: #257 - 10)

[pallid furnace]

Btw. Has anyone tried? And for that matter. Been successful?

[royal crater]

yes

[pallid furnace]

Could you dm me the examples?

I believe I could learn a lot from them.

[tacit halo]

Huh that's interesting, hadn't seen it happen since I generally don't use the vscode jbeam viewer thing

I assume there's some other functionality built in since it does connect with the game

[west stump]

literally nothing...

[small snow]

Hi, do you know how to make a pixelated texture❓, just like Minecraft, I tried but it looks blurry due to the low resolution.

[west stump]

For what exactly?

[small snow]

A Minecraft map

[west stump]

Uhh

Open whatever app you use for textures and make the resolution 16×16

Also I don't know why you're asking this here

[small snow]

It's already 16*16 but it's very blurry

[west stump]

Are you making textures for blocks?

[river forge]

I'd suggest making the texture 512x512 or so, where each 32x32 area is one colour to make it look like a single pixel

[small snow]

I'm making an entire world with only one texture and one object, it's a big texture image which contains all of the texture in 16*16

[west stump]

What.. how does that even work

[small snow]

It's like a sprite sheet

[west stump]

Idk how to help with this I'm sorry

[small snow]

No problems, I think I will just expand the texture like @river forge says

[river forge]

Made a quick example. Same texture, but one is true 16x16, while the other is actually 512x512

[west stump]

Ah that's interesting

[small snow]

Yes it's exactly what's happening

[west stump]

Yeah I didn't understand at first

[river forge]

Btw you could probably get away with less than 512x, to save some space

[west stump]

256 could work maybe

[small snow]

I will try this I think

Thanks to you guys

[kind orbit]

My mods keep getting removed from the forums and I do not know why

They don't give me a reason, or an alert, or even anything indicating that it's gone

I only know it's gone if I try to download it and it gives me an error

I want answers

I'm no longer surprised that so many people use modland if they can't even upload their own stuff

[proud sierra]

Faces were the wrong way

[distant pendant]

are you submitting it in forums or repo?

[tacit halo]

What are you uploading and are you sure you are uploading it where it should be

[kind orbit]

Forums

[kind orbit]

Uploading a direct port of an old beamNG map, uploading it as a resource on the forums

[tacit halo]

In the maps section?

[kind orbit]

Yep

The weird thing is that I can still search for it and open it

[tacit halo]

So here https://www.beamng.com/forums/terrains-levels-maps.27/create-thread?

[tacit halo]

That's the repository.....

[kind orbit]

whoops, I keep getting those two mixed up cause they always redirect me

[tacit halo]

In which old beamng content from older versions are not allowed

[kind orbit]

You sure? I'm not the only one who did that and the other stuff is still up

[tacit halo]

Nah that was done a long ago before that was a think

[kind orbit]

When did it become a thing

[tacit halo]

And if you are talking about grid map v1 that was uploaded by a official beamng bot

[kind orbit]

Nope

[tacit halo]

Show me what mod them

[kind orbit]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/techdemo-gridmap.21989/

[tacit halo]

Oh yeah that was before the rule

[kind orbit]

When did the rule go into effect

[tacit halo]

I don't know

But between the creation of grid map V2 and now

I just know that it's a rule

[kind orbit]

Which one of these is it

[tacit halo]

And I know that all ports now go on the forums section not the repo

[tacit halo]

Copyrighted content by beamng basically

[kind orbit]

I guess I'll try to post it on the forums then

[tacit halo]

Forum posts should be fine